Amy Poehler Quotes

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.

I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

I do not improvise in heels.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.

Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.

Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner's eyes. You will feel better.

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.